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Source

TB notification forms completed by public health doctors. These forms summarise all available clinical, microbiological, histological and epidemiological data. The completed dataset for Ireland is supplied to the TB Surveillance Unit at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and also the TB unit at the World Health Organization (WHO).

Scope

All notified cases of TB.

Frequency

Annual

Reference period

Calendar year

Start date

1998

Timeliness

21 months (full report), 9 months (provisional data), after the end of the reference period